Individual flight routes of straw-colored fruit bats during the dry season (grey: urban area of Accra, green: tree density). Use of images is limited to editorial coverage of scientific topics ...

But despite the animals’ prevalence, their migration patterns remain largely a mystery. Their speed, small size and nocturnal ...

Authorities traced the infections to one of the mine’s tunnels, where a 10,000-strong colony of Egyptian fruit bats roosts ... officials continue researching bat migration patterns and virus ...